Dsl wasn’t offered in my area until 2012 ish. Up till then I was using crappy 3g wireless dongles or my last 56k modem which had built in ethernet ports (still have that modem just in case). I feel this meme.
@ParanoidPizzas, who has never had the joy of downloading a game with a 56k modem and receiving a phone call in the middle of it, has not had a real internet experience
I remember the fear any time something was greater than 1MB. My first download on any new computer was always a download manager to try and avoid the constant drop-outs and restarts.
Them days of growing up, downloading mp3’s at 3.35 kb/s transfer speeds on dial up and going “Fuck yeah this is the high life, no getting better than this” lol.
I remember downloading a song on P2P downloaders taking hours or sometimes even a whole day. Now I can download a Blu Ray rip of a 1080p movie in less than 10 minutes.
I started my online journey on a bleeding edge (and very expensive) 28.8k modem. I still remember the amazing feeling of speed migrating to 33.6k and eventually 56k. We were semi-rural so while the eventual availability of DSL was game changing, our lines were so bad it was less reliable that dial-up. If it rained we had no internet whatsoever.
So glad things have moved on significantly since then.
56K was my intro to the internet. Not as ancient, but pretty close. Now I have gigabit, so instead of waiting for a week, only donwloading at night, now I can get a movie in minutes. What a world to live in.
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Dsl wasn’t offered in my area until 2012 ish. Up till then I was using crappy 3g wireless dongles or my last 56k modem which had built in ethernet ports (still have that modem just in case). I feel this meme.
I thought I was rural but you’re a whole different level
I would assume he’s getman.
Almost a man. About 17.
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@ParanoidPizzas, who has never had the joy of downloading a game with a 56k modem and receiving a phone call in the middle of it, has not had a real internet experience
I remember the fear any time something was greater than 1MB. My first download on any new computer was always a download manager to try and avoid the constant drop-outs and restarts.
My kids will never know the pain of being denied internet access because I’m waiting for a phone call.
Porn pictures loading line by line… I see a nipple! That’s a nipple!
Or adaptive jpegs, where did they go?
I mean the second last rez is probably less than a third of the last one…
My brand!
I remember spending a week downloading an awesome film. Only to find out at the end of was scat porn
Bane speaks the truth!
By then the lightning fast speeds were nothing to me but BLINDING
Them days of growing up, downloading mp3’s at 3.35 kb/s transfer speeds on dial up and going “Fuck yeah this is the high life, no getting better than this” lol.
I remember downloading a song on P2P downloaders taking hours or sometimes even a whole day. Now I can download a Blu Ray rip of a 1080p movie in less than 10 minutes.
Kids will not understand the pain of downloading a 3mb file for 25minutes straight and then realize is a virus/porn/gore/etc instead of what you want.
it was worse when you wanted a movie. You’d wait a week, only to find out it was german scat porn.
Or how about the nearly hour long process to burn a $1 blank CD and I’ve it fail as a penniless teenager
Or those 100 CDs for cheap of which you could literally peel off the data(or whatever you peeled off :-)
Got a whole bunch from my SOs father, after like 7 tries I told him, he’s answer yes “I never got them working”.
Got like 10 2GB SD cards he gave me too, but I was prepared and they all were like non functional.
A gigabyte was a whole lot of data back in the day.
My first modem was 1200 baud, Compuserve was the only internet provider costing around $7 an hour and was a long distance call that was 50¢ a minute.
Loving the discussion & history here.
I started my online journey on a bleeding edge (and very expensive) 28.8k modem. I still remember the amazing feeling of speed migrating to 33.6k and eventually 56k. We were semi-rural so while the eventual availability of DSL was game changing, our lines were so bad it was less reliable that dial-up. If it rained we had no internet whatsoever.
So glad things have moved on significantly since then.
1200 baud in 1994. I’m ancient.
56K was my intro to the internet. Not as ancient, but pretty close. Now I have gigabit, so instead of waiting for a week, only donwloading at night, now I can get a movie in minutes. What a world to live in.
Baudbrand